magicalhippo

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by magicalhippo 4d ago
Ah but you didn't buy the car, you bought a license to drive the car. You know, like CD or Playstation game.
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by magicalhippo 5d ago
Cheap! GBP 1.97/liter is NOK 24.76/liter, while actual price in Norway is NOK 26.98/liter on average today (USD 10.98/gallon).
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by magicalhippo 5d ago
> A lying politician is nothing new I think saying he's lying is too generous. It implies intent. I think he's just not capable of separating truth from fiction anymore.
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by magicalhippo 6d ago
> If that new data depends (in any way) on the fed data, then from a legal viewpoint it is derived from that data. The "in any way" part is either so broad it makes everything derivative, or not, in which case things are no l
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by magicalhippo 7d ago
The dictionaries disagrees[1][2], but lets call it graffiti-styled street art then. Guess graffiti is perhaps a bit more a general term here[3]. [1]: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=graffiti [2]: https
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by magicalhippo 7d ago
Yeah, my complaint was with the article. Why leave out such an important piece of information? Why not dig into the agreements and understandings? You say it is obvious, but to me it is not. I know of several works of wall-sized graffiti an
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by magicalhippo 7d ago
Public art painted on someone's property. No mention of what kind of arrangement they had with the propery owner when they painted it.
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by magicalhippo 8d ago
It's opt-out for personal plans, and opt-in for business pla s and API. This is explained on the page[1] linked to from the privacy section of the pricing page. [1]: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486
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by magicalhippo 8d ago
Knowing the math that was developed through history, and knowing how that math was developed and the circumstances around it are two fundamentally different things. Clearly Tao knows the former, but apriori that does not imply he knows the
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by magicalhippo 8d ago
It's quite well explained here[1], which is linked from the Privacy section of their plan overview[2]. Basically individual accounts can opt out, while business and enterprise plans as well as API users can opt in. You'd have to t
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by magicalhippo 8d ago
> Then, some time in 2020, they just ”forgot” to cut off my access after the trial ended. I had free Paramount Plus from then until 2025, when they merged with Skydance. Reminds me of that scene from Office Space: https://www.
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by magicalhippo 9d ago
https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/pisa-education-and-s...
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by magicalhippo 10d ago
This is a theoretical framework which predicts some results using van der Waals magnets[1] to store the data. Judging by this[2] recent review paper I wouldn't expect any super-efficient RAM chips yet: Athough the diversity of vdW mag
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by magicalhippo 10d ago
What I've done a few times is have the AI provide feedback, and then I rewrite myself based on the feedback. So I don't use what the AI suggests directly, just the essence if I agree.
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by magicalhippo 11d ago
It also depends on the parents and how they nurtured the relationship with the child as they grew up. I had a a good relationship with mine growing up, and enjoyed visiting, talking and so on as I was an adult. A good friend had it differen
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by magicalhippo 13d ago
Yet my SO is. No idea why, but she's really scared of them, especially dogs she doesn't know. Even a chihuahua is terrifying.
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by magicalhippo 14d ago
For those who are interested in learning why physicists think dark matter exists, there's an excellent and accessible talk[1] freely available over at PIRSA where an astrophysicist goes through exactly what we know about the universe a
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by magicalhippo 15d ago
Training data plays a huge role. As an example, Qwen 3 was generally considered a significant improvement over Qwen 2.5, but the architecture only had minor tweaks. The major change was the quantity and quality of training data they used fo
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by magicalhippo 15d ago
> Lots of margin left to compress. I guess it depends on market. In our niche we're not losing customers at this point, so no need to go down on margins yet. Perhaps we'll get there in the following years. I do know Covid was h
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by magicalhippo 16d ago
Another submission on the same story being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516199
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by magicalhippo 16d ago
You can only reduce margin a finite amount. At some point you will be passing on costs. Thus it only makes sense to do so if you'd make more money doing so, by retaining or gaining more customers.
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by magicalhippo 16d ago
We upgraded our 40MB harddrive to a 210MB, as it was constantly getting filled up. I was wondering what on earth to do with all this space, it seemed limitless. A week later I was cleaning up disk space again...
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by magicalhippo 16d ago
Sounds suspiciously like this[1] Ask HN submission. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517438
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by magicalhippo 17d ago
You jest, but with even trivial sites having 900+ so-called partners, "only" does indeed seem apt.
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by magicalhippo 18d ago
And for those still confused, CORE is FreeBSD-based and has been discontinued, while SCALE is Debian-based and the version that will be developed by TrueNAS going forwards. Hence the "continued" part in the title.
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by magicalhippo 18d ago
From the other side of the table kinda, as a SaaS provider, wages here have risen by about 5% each year. And wages is the greatest expense we have. That said, I'm just an employee so not my call either way.
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by magicalhippo 18d ago
Polls have consistently been favoring No to EU side since.
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by magicalhippo 18d ago
Maybe have a lighter intro page? I gave up waiting for it to load.
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by magicalhippo 19d ago
That's because the PM's party brokered that half-way deal with EU against the will of the people, after they had voted no to EU for the second time[1]. Not saying some of our export companies aren't enjoying the access to EU,
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by magicalhippo 19d ago
There are several sites out there trying to help explain PPWR and they all say the same thing: the one that brings the package to an EU state market must do EPR registration in that EU state. If you sell directly to consumers from a web sho

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